Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Friday November 9, 2018 |
Morning Time: 9:27 AM PST
"So walk ye in Him." --Colossians 2:6
If we have received Christ Himself in our inmost hearts, our new life will
manifest its intimate acquaintance with Him by a walk of faith in Him.
Walking implies action. Our religion is not to be confined to our closet;
we must carry out into practical effect that which we believe. If a man walks in
Christ, then he so acts as Christ would act; for Christ being in him, his hope,
his love, his joy, his life, he is the reflex of the image of Jesus; and men say
of that man, "He is like his Master; he lives like Jesus Christ." Walking
signifies progress. "So walk ye in Him"; proceed from grace to grace, run
forward until you reach the uttermost degree of knowledge that a man can attain
concerning our Beloved. Walking implies continuance. There must be a
perpetual abiding in Christ. How many Christians think that in the morning and
evening they ought to come into the company of Jesus, and may then give their
hearts to the world all the day: but this is poor living; we should always be
with Him, treading in His steps and doing His will. Walking also implies
habit. When we speak of a man's walk and conversation, we mean his
habits, the constant tenour of his life. Now, if we sometimes enjoy Christ, and
then forget Him; sometimes call Him ours, and anon lose our hold, that is not a
habit; we do not walk in Him. We must keep to Him, cling to Him, never
let Him go, but live and have our being in Him. "As ye have received Christ
Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him"; persevere in the same way in which ye have
begun, and, as at the first Christ Jesus was the trust of your faith, the source
of your life, the principle of your action, and the joy of your spirit, so let
Him be the same till life's end; the same when you walk through the valley of
the shadow of death, and enter into the joy and the rest which remain for the
people of God. O Holy Spirit, enable us to obey this heavenly precept.
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